LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...
A Dinghy (9)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.38 on the morning of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were at the Nab Light in a small sailing dinghy and needed a tow to Bembridge. They had been drifting...
A Catamaran
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 p.m. on 9th April, 1964, the inshore rescue boat no.
14 was launched to help a sailing dinghy which had been seen to capsize half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse. There was a fresh southerly...
None (10)
At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.
At 3.45 the patient and nurse...
A Speed Boat (2)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.
on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...
A Motor Cruiser
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 8 p.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a motor cruiser had broken down in a fresh to strong southerly breeze and a moderate sea and was drifting out to sea off the north...
Kirsten Frank
Blyth, Northumberland. At 11.15 p.m. on 24th January, 1966, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, the Kirsten Frank, had gone aground on the Sow and Pigs rocks.
The life-boat Winston...
Ajax, Rosebud
At 9.41 p.m. on i5th August, 1966, red flares were reported off Strumble Head.
At 9.51 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched on a smooth sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat found the fishing vessel...
Mizpah
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 4.40 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, the coastguard informedinformed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Mizpah had grounded on the Newcombe sandbank a quarter of a mile south east of Lowestoft harbour...
None (12)
At 7.48 p.m. on nth April, 1967, it was reported that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at Aberbach, Dinas Cross. The lifeboat Howard Marryat was launched at 8 o'clock in a strong north north easterly wind on the ebb tide. On reaching the...